People in motion. People in motion.
Remember Scott McKenzie? "If you're going to San Francisco/Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". There's another line in the song that runs through my mind from time to time: "People in motion". It's got a dynamic in it, like a train rolling along a track, "People in motion. People in motion. People in motion." Get it? Anyway, here's the relevant part of the song:
"All across the nation, such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation, with a new explanation
People in motion, people in motion"
And people are in motion. And San Francisco is at the centre of it all. First, there's Dervala, that good friend of the Rainy Day team. She's been packing her bags in New York City this recent while and she's now gone west to the Golden Gate where great opportunities await. Going the other way, however, is David Galbraith. The brilliant Scot, who traded in a career as an architect at Foster & Partners for the high-tech biz, is moving to New York. He's leaving part of his heart on the West Coast, though: "For me, San Francisco is a model of a 21st century city, it is at the heart of an area which is the world capital of both science and liberal thinking. As such, it is one of the few places where engineering is taken to a truly creative level, becoming an art as much as a science."
The exciting news is that Galbraith is launching a new product, which will build on the very hot tagging concept and will lie somewhere between Flickr and del.icio.us. Good luck! When Rainy Day was starting out, David provided a link, which we considered a great honour. Newsflash! Another friend, T, is moving. She's going to California as well, to Los Angeles. "People in motion. People in motion."
